Psychogéographie et carte des émotions, un apport à l’analyse du territoire ?

• Main Author: Anne-Solange Muis
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: UMR 245 - CESSMA 2016-12-01
• Series: Carnets de Géographes
• Subjects: psychogeography; emotions; sensitive; representations; cartography
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/cdg/713

Since its creation by the situationists in the 1950's psychogeography in France has been more or less ignored by social sciences, and the sensitive approach to cartography considered an experimentation, rather than a research topic in itself. But in the sensitive approach to the notion of space, emotion, according to psychogeographers, seems to be playing an important part as far as the collection of data is concerned. This perception of space and its ensuing representations, leads to the making of territories. Thus, through an experiment held with 2nd year engineering students (from March to April 2015) this article proposes to revisit the notion of psychogeography, in order to identify and understand the connection between psychology and the apprehension of space before defining to what extent an emotional cartography can become an additional tool in the outlining of a territory.